Now that everything is unlocked in Quake Champions, I have the opportunity to read up on all the lore scrolls I never picked up because I only played as the Hot Lizard Mom, and the biographical entries for Strogg and Peeker are hilarious.
The strogg guy was part of a skeleton crew left behind on Stroggos to keep the lights on since most everyone else slipgated to Earth to squeeze sweet, sweet stroyent from humans, and times were tough, stroyent had to be rationed, but lo! Humans reverse-engineered slipgate tech and counter-invaded!
Now food is dropping out of the sky, references are made to the beginning of Q2 where most of the initial strike force was wiped out by an EMP save for one lucky bastard who was now prowling the outer perimeter, and since this strogg is an infiltrator class, the Makron taps him to spy on the guy
Each field report from this strogg grows increasingly desperate. At first it's like haha look at this human, what a weak little fleshbag, but then subsequent entries are like holy fuck, this dude just wiped our entire jail security force, fuck fuck he's taking out our security grid, what the fuck
Makron, let me take this guy out, he's fucking our shit up, give me permission to take this guy out, he's wrecking everything, Makron, talk to me, he's ruining everything, he's moving so fast, how is he doing this, please let me kill this guy, I can kill him, just give me the order, I'll do it
Finally he's like fuck it, I'm just gonna do it, goes in, fucking fails, then wakes up and is like wait, this isn't Stroggos, where am I
It doesn't change anything about Q2, but when I replay it now I'm gonna think about how canonically there is a panicking spy who fucking dies trying to kill me